Matt Lauria To Star With Morena Baccarin In ‘Sheriff Country’ CBS Series

EXCLUSIVE: In his go back to CBS, former CSI: Vegas megastar Matt Lauria has been tapped as what is assumed to be the male lead reverse Morena Baccarin at the community’s upcoming drama collection Sheriff Country, a derivative from hit Fire Country.

Sheriff Country, which can premiere within the fall, stars Baccarin as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s department leader Sharon Leone (Fire Country‘s Diane Farr), who investigates illegal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater whilst contending together with her ex-con father (W. Earl Brown) and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.

Lauria will play Boone, Sheriff Mickey Fox’s sensible, difficult and succesful deputy and longtime spouse. Originally from Oakland, he’s used to another more or less policing. Their contrasting legislation enforcement types makes their partnership each complicated and every so often aggravating.

In addition to Baccarin and Brown, whose characters had been offered on Fire Country, Lauria joins fellow Sheriff Country new collection regulars Christopher Gorham and Michele Weaver who play Mickey’s ex-husband and a Sheriff deputy, respectively.

The Sheriff Country planted by-product episode was once written via Tony Phelan and Joan Rater with tale via Phelan, Rater and Max Thieriot, the trio at the back of Fire Country. Executive generating the collection are Matt Lopez, who serves as showrunner, Thieriot, Phelan, Rater, and Jerry Bruckheimer and KristieAnne Reed for JBTV. CBS Studios is the studio at the back of the Fire Country franchise.

Lauria will subsequent be noticed habitual in JJ Abrams’ length mystery drama collection Duster for Max as Izzy’s (Camille Guaty) oncologist boyfriend. He not too long ago wrapped indie movie Drowning and recurred on the second one season of Prime Video’s sci-fi Western Outer Range. His collection credit additionally come with main roles on DirecTV’s Kingdom, Apple TV+’s Dickinson, CBS All Access’ Tell Me A Story, Channel 4’s Traitors, Sky Atlantic’s Little Birds, NBC’s Parenthood and his breakout activate Friday Night Lights. In options, he was once maximum not too long ago noticed in Paramount’s 80 for Brady. Lauria is repped via Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett, & Kole.